Unfortunately the path they wanted to take is most likely "protection" through egregious AML/KYC requirements. Gary Gensler and company can honestly go f*ck themselves.

A commission-based job — easily. I'd prefer me having to earn more when I outperform and/or work harder rather than having a "safe" salary. It really depends on a case to case basis though; someone in a bad financial situation might want a stabler income especially if he/she sort of lacks the skills and connections.

Just a heads up: Install an open-source and reputable ad blocking plugin such as uBlock Origin[1] so you wouldn't be getting those scam advertisements.

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[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Wow! I've only heard the same exact market "analysis" like what? 52,637,215 times since the start of the year?

There's really no such thing. Unless he's referring to his centralized exchange wallet. Pretty much something like those "platinum" credit cards which mostly requires you a certain amount of maintaining balance and/or a certain amount of monthly/annual income.

Bitcoin developers: https://bitcoindevlist.com/

As for Electrum, I don't think they have an "official" donation address/page.


Just a heads up: there's no such thing as an "official" Bitcoin website. Bitcoin.org is just the most linked and most reputable among the Bitcoin websites.

A lot of times high ranks get a bad rap of only mostly giving merits to other high ranks. But in the end — why are most of them high ranks in the first place? Because they contribute a lot to the forum in the first place hence why they receive merits!

Of course this doesn't apply to 100% of high ranks; there are definitely abusers, but they're minuscule in the grand scheme of things as far as I know.

Of course not — but if you really want to own stocks, you're going to use platforms that are made specifically for stocks. Basically, TD Ameritrade, Schwab, Fidelity, Interactive Brokers, the list goes on.

Not sure with YouTube videos, but probably with books.

https://aantonop.com/books/mastering-bitcoin/
https://programmingbitcoin.com/

If you don't like books, probably search on YouTube if either Andreas or Jimmy has some workshops recorded.

DCA-ing into certain altcoins isn't really all that bad. The question is — can you actually pick the ones that will outperform bitcoin? Or will you be like the 95% that would end up picking dying coins/tokens?

I don't get the comparison. You don't enter in your private key every time you open the wallet app or make the transaction because the private key is stored on your device's storage. I guess the app lock thingy only helps if it adds a layer of encryption(?) for your private key.

It's totally up to the person, but Trust rating means little to nothing to me personally. Trust ratings are mostly given after transactions/trades that turned up well/badly; in which these don't matter that much to me. Though sometimes trust ratings(negative) are also given to known spammers and known fudders and such.

I know Elon gets a lot of crap everytime (sometimes well deservedly), but I don't know I've seem to see a lot less Twitter spam bots in the past few days so that's a HUGE plus.

It's only important if you do or purchase goods and services. If not, not really that important in my opinion. I'm mostly here for discussions, so received sMerits is far more important than Trust ratings in my book.

Of course it technically can — $10k is literally just slightly more than a 50% drop. But a better question is, will it? Only time will tell. If you were to ask my non-trader opinion though, it's pretty much a coin flip.

Depends on what we mean by "new technology" and "new upgrade"; because technically, soft forks such as Taproot can be considered as "upgrades". It's really just the fact that Bitcoin "upgrades" take a lot of time, but not necessarily that they don't happen.

Congrats. But just as a heads up, I hope you know how to properly store your bitcoin. You wouldn't want hackers and scammers running away with your hard-earned money.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631151.0
https://cryptosec.info/wallets
https://cryptosec.info/scams

Too young to be going this deep in my opinion. With that age, just let him learn(if he's actually interested, don't force interests) and play with basic programming tasks that would most likely interest his age group.

Whoever has it isn't important (unless it's hackers/scammers which is very likely not the case). We should just give huge thanks to Hal's contributions to Bitcoin, and just respect his and his family's privacy.

You technically can — but as a beginner, what are the chances of you being successful with a short term hold? Very slim. You're better off doing something else whereas you can have far more control over the process and the result (business/gig/work/etc). With things like crypto or markets in general, you can make great picks, but short-term volatility can mess you up.